Teaching Russian Creatively with and Beyond the Textbook

Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook is a collection of pedagogical narratives that promotes impactful approaches to teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) when supplementing or going beyond a specific textbook.

With the lightning pace of modern news, social media, and technology, textbooks quickly become outdated and as a response to these rapid changes, this edited volume showcases a wide range of approaches to teaching RFL with and beyond traditional textbooks. The reader will find many creative ideas and solid practical advice from colleagues who have experimented with task- based language teaching, corpus-based learning, drama-based pedagogy, community-engaged pedagogy, and technology-mediated language learning, while incorporating authentic materials and turning them into living textbooks.

The book will be a useful resource for Russian instructors and language departments interested in engaging their students with creative and unique courses.

Svetlana V. Nuss is a teacher educator affiliated with the University of Alaska and Grand Canyon University, U.S.A.

Wendy Whitehead Martelle is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Russian at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, U.S.A.